Job Description

A global pharmaceutical company has a 12 month contract position for a Finance Learner (Bookkeeper).Job Summary:
The Learner provides administrative and financial process support to various teams in South Africa. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting Finance Back-office with finance-related tasks. In general, the Candidate is to provide administrative support in the Vendor Creation and Maintenance process and assist the Finance Controller with Financial processes such as month-end close activities. Learner should carry strong interpersonal skills with ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.Key Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable Support (Procure to Pay Requestor):

• Support Finance and Support functions with PTP creations.
• Prepare, process and upload documentation packs into SAP Fiori system for Purchase Order (PO) creation.
• Prepare PO invoice processing packs for submission to invoice processing team.
• Receive and review supplier invoices and route for internal approvals prior to payments.
• Investigate invoices that are blocked for payment and resolve any queries from the invoice processing team.

Vendor Creation and Maintenance Processing:

• Populate and/or review vendor creation and maintenance applications for processing.
• Submit vendor creation or update requests on the relevant systems.
• Resolve queries and ensure creation and update requests are followed up on until completed.

Month end processing and Ad-hoc Administration:

• Annual and monthly support in financial processes such as annual audits, month-end close activities including accruals and journals.
• Review of Open Purchase Orders accrual details, adjustment of accruals where required.
• Support the finance team in ad-hoc responsibilities and collaborate with team members on finance projects and initiatives.

Education & Experience

• University degree: BCom Finance/Accounting.
• Fluency in English and preferably one other language.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Team player.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Detail orientated.

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies

• Committed, credible and enthusiastic with an action-oriented approach.
• Demonstrated abilities in Cross Functional collaboration and working.
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong analytical, data gathering, reporting skills.
• Strong inter-personal, motivational skills.
• Experienced using Microsoft software to a high standard (Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Excels in a fast paced and dynamic environment, calm under pressure.

Candidates that meet the criteria may submit their applications via this portal or via vacancy link on www.mnarecruitment.com
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